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''[[The Swiss Cottage, or Why Don't She Marry?]]'' is a vaudeville in one act by Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Haynes_Bayly]
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The text also referred to simply as '''''[[The Swiss Cottage]]''''', and on occasion called a musical [[burletta]].
 
 
 
==The original text==
 
 
 
First performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London, followed by performances at various American theatres.
 
Published as Volume 405 of Dicks' standard plays,  Volume 1 of Lacy's acting edition and in Samuel French's American Drama (no LXXIX), 1860 and by [[Thomas Hailes Lacy]], London, 1866.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1867: Performed as ''[[The Swiss Cottage]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] on 25 September as part of their "Grand Re-opening Night" in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]],  Cape Town, with ''[[Good for Nothing]]'' (Buckstone) , ''[[Delicate Ground]]'' (Dance).
 
 
 
1871: Performed as ''[[The Swiss Cottage]]'' by the visiting [[Bijou Troupe]] in the [[Cape Town Institute]] building on 20 March, with ''[[The Rough Diamond]]'' (Buckstone).
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Buckstone%2C%20John%20Baldwin%2C%201802%2D1879
 
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone
 
 
 
Facsimile version of the Samuel French text of ''[[A Rough Diamond]]'' (nd), ''The Digital Archive''[https://archive.org/details/roughdiamondcomi00buckuoft]
 
 
 
Facsimile version of the Samuel French text of ''[[The Rough Diamond]]'' (1850), ''The Digital Archive''[https://archive.org/details/roughdiamondfarc00buck]
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp 230, 253-4.
 
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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